Multitudes

✍ Scribed by Christakos, Margaret

• Book ID: 107716249
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 646 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781552452790

✦ Synopsis

Revelling in the value of social polyphony from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," Multitudes looks at its contemporary theatres of Facebook and Twitter, post-riot police surveillance, protest culture and poetry itself. With wit, perceptiveness and her trademark linguistic sonar, Margaret Christakos keenly examines intimacies and banishments, as well as intergenerational grief, self-display and social hope.

Review

"Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensice clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work." – Rachel Blau DuPlessis [on Multitudes]

"Stirring both emotionally and in a bold experimentalism." – Winnipeg Free Press [on What Stirs]

"Is Margaret Christakos the love child of David Cronenberg and the queen of the confessional poets, Sharon Olds? ... Much of this writing shocks for its originality." – Georgia Straight [on Sooner]

About the Author

Margaret Christakos: Margaret Christakos is the award-winning author of eight acclaimed poetry collections and a novel, Charisma , shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. She teaches creative writing and runs 'Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon' at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Her recent collection, What Stirs , was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.